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Originally Posted by aletarw
I had out-of-town visitors and took them to the tree lighting at Lake Sumter. It was very disappointing. I've never been before and maybe my expectations were too high. The vendors were great, but the actual tree lighting was very anticlimactic.
In order to improve it
• they could have had something like sing-along music just prior to the actual lighting, which would engage the audience
• by considering the presence of children who get bored with opera/symphony music
• giving the audience heads-up when the tree lighting is going to occur so they won’t go away and miss it
It turned out to be a very dissapointing anti-climatic event.
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Used to be Billie Thatcher would lead us singing Christmas Carols before the tree switch was thrown. Did they give out the hand held candles this year and everyone wave them before the tree was lite ? It was also accompanied with the stilt walkers dressed up as drummer boys. The streets were cleared and tables and chairs set up for people to socialize. Tonight is lighting ceremony at Spanish Springs.